Amount Quote by Larry Tesler

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

— Michael Behe

“Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the…

— Scott A. Minnich

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier…

— Anonymous

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

— Fernando J. Corbato

The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is…

— Ellen Ullman

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

— Fred Brooks

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

“Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not an engineer,…

— Philip Greenspun

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

— Eric S. Raymond

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and…

— Douglas Crockford

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a…

— Rick Cook

If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch…

— Joel Spolsky